| Chang and Eng Reconnected: The Original Siamese Twins in American Culture Contributor(s): Wu, Cynthia (Author) |
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ISBN: 1439908680 ISBN-13: 9781439908686 Publisher: Temple University Press OUR PRICE: $82.18 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: August 2012 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | American - Asian American - Social Science | People With Disabilities - History | United States - 19th Century |
| Dewey: 810.935 |
| LCCN: 2012008892 |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 6.1" W x 9.1" (0.95 lbs) 218 pages |
| Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - Asian - Topical - Physically Challenged - Chronological Period - 19th Century |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Conjoined twins Chang and Eng Bunker have fascinated the world since the nineteenth century. In her captivating book, "Chang and Eng Reconnected," Cynthia Wu traces the OC Original Siamese TwinsOCO through the terrain of American culture, showing how their inseparability underscored tensions between individuality and collectivity in the American popular imagination.a Using letters, medical documents and exhibits, literature, art, film, and family lore, Wu provides a trans-historical analysis that presents the Bunkers as both a material presence and as metaphor. She also shows how the twins figure in representations of race, disability, and science in fictional narratives about nation building. As astute entrepreneurs, the twins managed their own lives; nonetheless, as "Chang and Eng Reconnected" shows, American culture has always viewed them through the multiple lenses of difference." |